The Ljubija files -- a collection of texts, photos, maps and facts
compiled by Maja Lovrenovic.

>From the introduction:

Genocide Sold: Bosnian 'Corpse Mine' at Ljubija

Summary: In the fall of 2004, Anglo-Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal's
LNM group (later merging into Mittal Steel Company) made headlines
by buying up Bosnia's BH Steel in the largest privatisation deal since
the end of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia. Passing virtually unnoted by
the Bosnian and international media was the fact that, in addition to
steel mills, the deal also involved a mining complex at Ljubija, near
Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia.

The Ljubija mines had been used during the war as a vast charnel pit
to dispose of the bodies of hundreds of victims killed in nearby massacres
and in a network of concentration camps associated with the mines. The
sale of the Ljubija and Omarska mines (the latter the site of a notorious
camp during the war) to Mittal and the restart of mining operations, is
likely to - and in part designed to - put a halt to further exhumations by
forensic investigators, who last year alone unearthed hundreds of remains
of war crimes victims from mass grave sites in the area. The sale of the
mines to Mittal comes as the culmination of nearly a decade of efforts
by the Bosnian Serb authorities to obliterate the evidence of the crimes
while at the same time continuing to profit from the proceeds of ethnic
cleansing.

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